Clayton A. Chan, D.D.S. Founder/Director

About Dr. Chan

Dr. Clayton Chan is a dental educator, trainer and consultant to dentists who span the globe from private practice to leading dental organizations. All attest to Dr. Chan's unique impact in the field of private practice, personal and organizational transformation and development.

Dr. Chan has shared platforms with leading authorities in the areas of occlusion, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, orthodontic/orthopedics and comprehensive restorative and continues to be a leader in advocating the use of objective measuring technologies to bring accountability to the clinical dental practice.

Occlusion Connections™ is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing dental education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for Fellowship/Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from 9/1/2016 to 8/31/2020. Provider ID# 349336.

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Welcome to OC

A new understanding is required of today’s dentist to grasp underlying factors that relates clinical dentistry to both the gnathic and neuromuscular principles. This journey is a blended process that brings an in depth understanding with clinical experience. Together with excellence based on honesty, respect, discipline and courage these organic concepts will come together in both skilled clinical application and bio-physiologic science. This is GNM.

Finding a Qualified GNM Dentist

Disclosure:
It is the responsibility of each patient to ask the right questions in order to determine whether a dentist is qualified to meet your particular dental needs. Dentist have varying degrees of knowledge, experience, training and skills. Occlusion Connections™ is not responsible for the diagnostic and clinical decision making that each dentist makes when treating their patients.

The dentist listed on this map have taken varying levels of OC courses. It is your responsibility to determine if each one is qualified to treat and help meet your particular needs.

All patients with cranial distortions will have a mandible that is functioning and occluding posterior to an optimal myo-trajectory. Myo-trajectory is the isotonic closure of the mandible from physiologic rest position along a trajectory through freeway space. Along this trajectory, muscles and muscle groups are firing at the minimal electrical activity to carry the mandible from physiologic rest position to terminal tooth contact. Terminal tooth contact should be balanced and synchnronized to this trajectory and not some other closing path. Once this is achieved de-rotations will then occur allowing the unraveling of the cranial skews, strains and torques.

An Optimized Myo-trajectory has been recognized by the OC GNM trained dentists. They have recognized through years of clinical treatment experience that TMD patients with joint derangement, pain and masticatory dysfunctions will present with a classical “myo-trajectory” that is produced when low frequency involuntary bilateral TENS pulse stimulation is used to relax the musculature, but this is not the best and most idealized (isotonic) myo-trajectory. For this reason the OC doctors are able to use specific protocols in the use of their K7’s and J5 myomonitor TENS to identify a more accurate and specific “Optimized Myo-trajectory” for their patients mandibles which leads to a more efficient treatment resolution of these problems.